My Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
20% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
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RandomURL: Tips for Travelling in the South. How not to get your ass kicked in the south. I grew up in Southeastern Virginia, which most Southerners will still begrudgingly accept as Southern, and this list of tips is both accurate and hysterical.
13) Don’t ridicule our Southern manners. We say sir and ma’am. We hold doors open for others. We offer our seats to old folks because such things are expected of civilized people. Behave yourselves around our sweet little gray-haired grandmothers or they’ll kick some manners into your ass just like they did ours.
